Giving Americans the Facts

In recent years, the CPAFFC has helped many U.S.-based corporations start operations in China. For example, it helped MetLife, Inc. and Chubb Insurance Company Ltd. to obtain business licenses, and arranged 17 meetings with Chinese leaders for Citibank. When certain U.S. companies hit trouble spots, the CPAFFC, in a non-governmental capacity, helped them to resolve the problems. As a result, those U.S. enterprises so helped make profits on the Chinese market attach great importance to U.S.-China relations, and plow back some of their profits into Chinese society to help poverty reduction efforts, train laid-off women workers, and so on.

Board members of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) have twice been to Zunhua and Xibaipo in Hebei Province, where they have funded two computer labs in primary schools. Some U.S. congressmen came along too and the direct contact between the U.S entrepreneurs and congressmen and ordinary Chinese inspired the CPAFFC to build a bridge for ordinary Chinese to go to the U.S Congress, bringing more U.S. congressmen into direct communication with the Chinese populace and hearing their true voices.

Then the Chinese "truth-telling" delegation came into being in 2002. The CPAFFC has organized these delegations five times, and the lobbying delegation was the fifth. Most of the previous groups were comprised of farmers, workers, and regular and quake-impacted students; they explained their own experience of China's reform and opening-up, the actual developing situations of local areas and people's living conditions. The congressmen were deeply impressed and some of their attitudes toward China were significantly changed.

For the latter half of 2011, the CPAFFC is organizing a face-to-face dialogue between private Chinese entrepreneurs and U.S. congressmen. The businessmen – some of whom were former farmers, and others people who started with nothing – will describe how they founded and developed their businesses.